OLIVIA BAREHAM

My name is Olivia and I am known primarily as a death midwife, but am also a dedicated student of the Mystery, a teacher, healer, inter-faith minister, mother, grandmother, friend and Mystic.

Every since my mother died in 2005 I realized that at the moment of death and for a few days following there is a profound opportunity for healing. I turned my ministry toward the goal of inspiring and empowering others to reclaim the lost art and healing ritual of home-based after death care.  When we lean consciously into this liminal space, allow ourselves to feel the depths of our fear, love and sorrow we are re-arranged and never the same.

The work is tender, raw, honest, gentle, real, alive and deeply satisfying. I fall in love over and over again and become more and more aligned to my true purpose – to help change the culture of death and dying from fear to love.

I feel the expansive field of work with the dying and their families is Death Midwifery and includes the role of Spiritual end-of-life counselor, death doula, home funeral guide, funeral planner, celebrant  and even funeral director and care giver. The Art of Death Midwifery training program was designed to cover all aspects of the work.

Death is life’s greatest teacher – it is time for us take this skeleton out of the closet once and for all, to lay her gently on the table and allow her wisdom to gently penetrate the depths of our psyche till we are free from fear, free from attachment, free from conditioning, free to truly live.

– Olivia Bareham

DARREN CAMPBELL JENKINS

I’m Darren Jenkins, a composer living in Edinburgh Scotland. I’ve always been intrigued by sound design, programming and of course building the best home studio allowing the freedom of creativity.

I have had a passion for writing music from a very early age. I began this wonderful journey in production music in late September 2018 when I was introduced to Michael John Mollo here at Velvet Green music. We collaborated on over 40 tracks in my first 14 months since being signed.

I have gained so many new skills which include: improving track layouts and instrumentation, reading and understanding briefs, communication in the business and writing lots of genres that VGM has to offer. Michael has an abundance of knowledge, What you can learn from him and from the material we are provided with is truly priceless.

If I could sum up library production music I would say, it is a wonderful and educational journey, having the freedom to be able to write many different genres of music from all regions across the world. This brings with it the ability to meet amazing, talented people, learning about their cultures and the culture of traditional instruments and most importantly making friendships that will last a lifetime. For this very reason I will continue to write and enjoy what I do. 

I have multiple albums and tracks available across the world of library production music and I continue to grow my catalog. I am truly blessed to work with so many great publishers.

Some labels I have worked with include: Gargantuan, Velvet Green Music, APL Publishing, Earmotion Audio Creation, Hollywood Trax music, BMG production music, Warner Chappell US, Warner Chappell Elbroar, Warner Chappell Color TV, Fantasy music, Lovely music, Bart music library, Amadea production music, Sonoton Gargantuan, Velvet Green Music, APL Publishing, Earmotion Audio Creation, Hollywood Trax music.